Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1887-11-23
STATE UNIVERSITY.
Der of suggestions Worthy
of Careful COnsi Grafton.

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asked Senator Stewart Saturday
night of Gazette reporter.
"What more would you have the
people of Reno do than they have
done ?" queried the reporter.
"What more would / have them
do? Well, in the first place l
would have them open a public
thoroughfare leading to the Univer-
sity grounds. The only way you can
get there now with conveyance is
through a private lane that can be
closed to travel anytime its owner
says the word; and Winter will
| soon DE here and there is not
board or any other kind of decent
sidewalk between the town and the
grounds of the institution
e'That, I believe, Is true" an,
swered the reporter. "But when
the matter is properly brought be-
fore the Board of County Commits
sioners they will no doubt give it
their attention and subserve the
best interests of the institution so
far as they can legally do SO. What
else would you suggest in order to
| make the University the success it
/, ought to be?"
There are two things that must
be done before the institution will
be generally patronized by parents
having sons and daughters to edu-
cate in the higher branches. The
first is, do away with the grave
yard alongside of the University.
The idea that people will send their
sons and daughters to an institution
where they will be subjected to the
poisonous gases that constantly
arise from burial ground is ridic-
ulous. / certainly would not send
child of mine there. Go to the
health office of any city and in
ouire about the health of settle
ments adjacent to graveyards and
cemeteries and you will find the
death rate there is greatly in excess
of what it is elsewhere. Inquire
into, the causes OF these deaths and
you will find that they are mostly
fever, dypthe ria and other diseases
that arise from foul gases. Most
any physician will tell you, if you
ask him, that the burial ground
causes them"
"What would you suggest as a
remedy for the graveyard alongside
OF the University ?"
"Let the people stop burying
their dead there. If your town
grows it will be a matter of only a
few years until all those bodies will
have to be raised and buried else
| where. Why the authorities ever
allowed tie graveyards there, where
the gases could be waited over the
town, is more than l can under
stand, and to build State Uniyer-
sity adjoining sIch grounds is worse
still. would suggest that steps be
taken, and at once, to have the re-
mains removed to grounds farther
out of town, AID that the State buy
the graveyard and make it q part
OF the University grounds. More
land is required anyhow for the in
stitution if we would have it attain
the standing that it should, as a
State institution, have.
81 would also suggest that some
measures be adopted to furnish
means to build wings or annexes to
the present University building.
the same to be used for the accom-
mediation of students who come from
other parts of the State. Parents
who send their sons and daughters
away to school prefer to have them
looked after by some competent and
interested person rather than to
put them in a boarding house or
even in a private family where they
feel no restraints upon them. Let
some live man take hold of the mat
ter and present it promptly to some
of the moneyed men in the State. /
am sure that a number of them
would put up the coin and wait